Demanding legalization and equal rights, several thousand undocumented workers and their supporters demonstrated in Paris and in other French cities April 5. The actions were called by the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), and organizations in favor of immigrant rights. The French government has set a quota of 25,000 undocumented immigrants to be deported annually. The day before the rally a janitor from Mali died after jumping in the Marne river near Paris, trying to escape cops chasing him after an ID check at a train station. It’s the third death of an immigrant fleeing cops since last September.

—CLAUDE BLETON